Jay's journal of anomolies
Subtitle: conjurers, cheats, hustlers, hoaxsters, pranksters, jokesters, impostors, pretenders, sideshow showmen, armless calligraphers, mechanical marvels, popular entertainments
By: Ricky Jay.
Edition: 1st. pbk. ed.
Publisher: Quantuck Lane
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders; Entertainers -- Biography; Impostors and imposture
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Journal of anomolies
Description: "The multitalented Ricky Jay (sleight-of-hand artist, actor, author, and scholar of the unusual) wrote and published a unique and beautifully designed quarterly called Jay's Journal of Anomalies. Already coveted collector's items, the sixteen issues are now gathered here in a complete set, with significant new material and illustrations.

A brilliant excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments, the journal was described in The New York Times as "beautiful and elegant ... a combination of rigorous scholarship and personal rumination.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.